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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."
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"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."
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"I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt."
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"The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur."
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"Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying."
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"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."
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"Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed."
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"The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying."
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"I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."
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"I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship."
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"Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying."
Flying

"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it."
Technology

"I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful."
Success

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."
Desire

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
Earth

"We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected."
People

"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."
Nature

"It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it."
Earth

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."
Heartbeats

"Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird."
Being
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